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摘要《老友记》从20世纪末开播以来，一直是全世界最受欢迎的美国情景喜剧之一。它通过讲述生活在纽约曼哈顿的优尔个好友10年间所发生的一系列幽默、感人的故事，向人们展示了他们深厚的友谊以及相互之间恋爱和美国的独特文化，令人印象深刻。在此电视剧的基础上，本文对美国人的恋爱观和婚姻观进行了全面分析,同时也比较了中美价值观的不同。经本文研究发现美国人倾向于和他们的伴侣建立一个浪漫的关系，而中国人和他们的伴侣的关系往往建立在物质之上。美国人的婚姻是源于爱情，然而中国人的婚姻是建立在很多因素之上的。本文希望该研究能够加强双方的相互了解。40719
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Abstract Friends has been one of the most popular American situation comedies in the world since the late twentieth century. It tells us an impressive story of what happened among six friends with a series of humorous and touching stories in New York Manhattan among 10 years. It shows us the unique culture of love and deep friendship between them. Based on the show, the paper makes an analysis of American values towards love and marriage. It also compares the different values in China and America. The paper finds comparative study out that American people tend to have a romantic relationship with their partners,while Chinese tend to build their relationship based on substances. American marriage is the result of love, while the marriage in China is built up based on different considerations. The paper intends that it will strengthen the mutual understanding between those two counties.
Key words: Friends; view of love; view of marriage
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. View of Love 2
2.1 Love Attitude 2
2.2 Atypical Love 4
2.3 Attitudes Towards Sex 5
III. View of Marriage 6
3.1View of Mate Selection 6
3.1.1 Love as the Premise 6
3.1.2 Shared Values 6
3.1.3 The Attitude Towards Money 7
3.2 The Attitude Towards Marriage 7
3.3 The Concept of Family 8
IV. Conclusion 10
Bibliography 12
Acknowledgements 13
A Comparative Study of the American and Chinese Values Towards Love and Marriage in Friends
I. Introduction
In the memory of Chinese, the United States is an open, free and irresponsible country with a lot of one-night stand, sex crimes and the highest porce rate. People blame on American’s openness After watched the Friends, people have prejudice to Americans.
Friends, also known as six person journey, is the United States famous sitcom hit since the 1990s a with total of 10 season. This show at present is still one of the most popular sitcoms in Europe and the United States .Though from beginning to end, it strictly follows the American sitcom basic rule: every story climax as in the limited time of 20 minutes. In the relaxed and humorous dialogue contains a unique "American" humor, which is simply astounding. The show is humorous, but more importantly, in the constant laughter, it let us see another way of love and marriage treating. Friends virtually become a mirror of everyday life, which allows us to learn life, to enjoy people’s love.
In the Friends, the story of six people firmly attracts the audience, convey the pure attitude to the love of young people. It is about friendship, career twists and turns and the joys and sorrows of life for six young people: Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe in New York city. Friends though a sitcom but it is a situation comedy so it different from all soap operas, reflecting the most ordinary people's life, at the same time reflecting the American marriage values. In this article, surrounding friends views of love and marriage, spouse-selection view and family values, in friends the writer will explore the differences between China and the United States. For example, in the 10 years ,the play’s most critical couple - Ross and Rachel, their story touches the hearts of every audience, from Ross’s confession to Rachel, and later the two falling in love, breaking up, repeatedly, which let the young and then be together audience understand the truth of love.The combination of Chandler and Monica is close to the ordinary life of many people, including ordinary people’s setbacks, finally finding each other, like two children walking on the road, he has been wrestling, crying, then finally knowing how to pull each other’s hand, comforting and supporting each other.